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BreachForums to be shut down after all for fear of law enforcement infiltration

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Tags: BreachForums

Tags: Pompompurin

Tags: FBI

Tags: Dark Web

Tags: data breaches

After the arrest of the administrator of the Dark Web site BreachForums there was talk about keeping it alive, but now the forums will be shut down for fear of law enforcement infiltration.

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Google Suspends Chinese E-Commerce App Pinduoduo Over Malware

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 23:11:08 +0000

Google says it has suspended the app for the Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo after malware was found in versions of the app. The move comes just weeks after Chinese security researchers published an analysis suggesting the popular e-commerce app sought to seize total control over affected devices by exploiting multiple security vulnerabilities in a variety of Android-based smartphones.

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Feds Charge NY Man as BreachForums Boss “Pompompurin”

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2023 23:39:22 +0000

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week arrested a New York man on suspicion of running BreachForums, a popular English-language cybercrime forum where some of the world biggest hacked databases routinely first show up for sale. The forum’s administrator “Pompompurin” has been a thorn in the side of the FBI for years, and BreachForums is widely considered a reincarnation of RaidForums, a remarkably similar crime forum that the FBI infiltrated and dismantled in 2022.

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